WRRC 2020 Annual Conference - BRUCE BABBITT Keynote: Looking Forward, Then and Now

Let's flash back first to 1980 and the Groundwater Management Act - in hindsight it looks like 40 years of 'doing nothing' about the worst drought in over 1,200 years.

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Published: Wednesday, February 23, 2022 - 8:59am

Updated: Wednesday, February 23, 2022 - 10:47am

"...“At the time, it didn’t seem so urgent to deal with the other 10 or 11 counties," Babbitt said. "For better or for worse, we said, ‘we’ve got time.’ Now I’ve got to tell you that I didn’t imagine that having time meant that we would do nothing for 42 years."

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